Kas Oosterhuis, Programmable Architecture

Kas Oosterhuis's architecture runs along the fine line seperating or joining it in to the realms of art · Oosterhuis has built all his work, illustrated in this book, around the combination of rigorous design and artistic freedom, while also paying subtle attention to digital technology · His work ranges from the multiform Active Structures of "Trans-ports", an interactive pavilion, to the functional layout of spaces of the Garbage Transfer Station "Elhorst/Vloedbelt", Variomatic S(culptures) and Variomatic L(andscapes), and finally the clever architectural forms of the Helsinki Music Center and the fantastic Programmable Landscapes, a "game" played by a Database on one hand and Intuition on the other · These dialectical relations between design philosophy and clever invention place Oosterhuis's works at the cutting-edge of modern-day architectural design.